BetaDesigns( Blog ) » iphone http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog Flex and Component Development Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:04:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 SnowPapers http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2011/12/14/snowpapers/ http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2011/12/14/snowpapers/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:10:59 +0000 Anthony http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/?p=481 Hot on the heels of SantasSleigh comes SnowPapers!
Snow papers is a simple application that allows you to add a nice snow effect to any of the images currently on your device. You Can then save that image to your Photo Album to use it as a Snowing Wallpaper. In addition you can also choose an image apply your snow settings and let the application run as a ScreenSaver for you device.

Customise the snow effect with the following settings.
* Snow Intensity.
* Snow Speed.
* Snow Scale.
* Gravity.
* Wind.

iTunes link
AppWorld Link

Some Screenshots.
screenshot1 screenshot2 screenshot3 screenshot4 screenshot1 screenshot2 screenshot3 screenshot4 Screenshot-hd Screenshot1-ipad Screenshot2-ipad

]]> http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2011/12/14/snowpapers/feed/ 1 Liquid-Photo approved for Blackberry Playbook http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2011/04/17/liquid-photo-approved-for-blackberry-playbook/ http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2011/04/17/liquid-photo-approved-for-blackberry-playbook/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:54:33 +0000 Anthony http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/?p=375 Turn your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ into a liquid photo slide show while it charges!. Touch the screen anywhere [...]]]> I am proud to announce that Liquid-photo has been approved for the Blackberry App store. Below are the details of release 1.0.
and the official site can be found over at http://www.liquid-photo.com

Release One Splash Screen

Turn your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ into a liquid photo slide show while it charges!.

Touch the screen anywhere and watch as a water ripple spreads across your gallery images.
Take photo's from within the application and manipulate them immediately.
Complete Photo Browser included so you can view all the images on your BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Including Images download from the built in web browser.
Tweek and change the Rain Effect's settings to get a custom effect that suit's you, be it a heavy down pour or a light shower.

Features
* Touch sensitive water ripples
* Screensaver while your Playbook™ Charges
* Automatically exits the application if your batter falls below 10% if it is not Charging
* Rain Effect - Create an amazing rain effect over top of your image slide show
* In-App Camera control so you can quickly add water effects to your photo's
* Choose individual Photo's or whole Albums to add to your slideshow
* Live Effect/Slide show configuration through the built in settings screen
* Ideal ScreenSaver whilst your Playbook™ charges
* Slide Show

Coming soon...
* Link the application to your Flickr account.
* More Water effects like, ripples and splashes.
* Color Effects.
* Random SlideShow Options.
* Random Effects Options.

]]> http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2011/04/17/liquid-photo-approved-for-blackberry-playbook/feed/ 0 First Blackberry Playbook Application http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2011/03/10/first-blackberry-playbook-application/ http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2011/03/10/first-blackberry-playbook-application/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:51:27 +0000 Anthony http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/?p=360 Blackberry Playbook

Just wrapping up my first Blackberry Playbook Application ready for the now extended Free Blackberry Playbook offer. I must say that I have found it extremely easy to developer for. Apart from the Camera Api's not working I have been able to create a version of an iOS application i have been working on in less than a week! ( it has taken me months to write the iOS version and it is still not finished! ).

Once I get my app approved I will do a more detailed post on how i created it.

Details Coming soon.

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objc_exception_throw
[NSException raise]
malloc_error_break

In addition here is a great tech paper on debugging in xcode called Mac OS X Debugging Magic

And here is a nice tutorial for using instruments to debug

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To create a custom key bindings file goto XCode>Preferences>Bindings> Duplicate an existing binding and name it whatever you want then go to and open the file you just created in a text editor so you can see the xml output.

~/Library/Application Support/Xcode/Key Bindings/*.pbxkeys

A good list of available commands can be found here

1. Duplicate code!

I can't believe xcode doesn't have this in Eclipse you simple select your text and press Ctrl + Alt and either Up or Down on the keypad and it will duplicate your code placing it either above or below the current selection. It will also reselect the newly duplicated code so that you can duplicate it as many times as you like.

<key>^~\U700</key>
<array>
<string>copy:</string>
<string>moveUp:</string>
<string>moveToEndOfLine:</string>
<string>insertLineBreak:</string>
<string>insertNewLine:</string>
<string>setMark:</string>
<string>paste:</string>
<string>selectToMark:</string>
</array>
<key>^~\U701</key>
<array>
<string>copy:</string>
<string>moveDown:</string>
<string>moveToBeginningOfLine:</string>
<string>insertLineBreak:</string>
<string>insertNewLine:</string>
<string>moveUp:</string>
<string>setMark:</string>
<string>paste:</string>
<string>selectToMark:</string>
</array>
2. Delete Line.
Deletes the current line your cursor is on. press Ctrl + D.
<key>^d</key>
<array>
<string>cut:</string>
<string>selectLine:</string>
<string>cut:</string>
</array>
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